A third person was indicted on Thursday for allegedly keeping classified documents in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Special counsel Jack Smith has reportedly indicted Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos de Oliveira as part of an ongoing investigation into the former president’s handling of the documents. priority prosecution.
The indictment alleges De Olivieria, 56, moved the boxes around his Florida mansion.
The superseded indictment also contains additional charges against Trump, bringing his total to 40 charges in the case. The new charges include an additional charge of willful document retention and two additional charges of obstruction.
Trump was indicted in June on 37 counts related to the documents. The charges against the former president include 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act and one count of “conspiracy to obstruct justice.” His one case of “holding of documents or records.” He has one count of “wrongfully concealing a document or record.” One charge of “covering documents in postponement of investigation”. There was one case of “cover-up” and one case of “false statements and representations.”
A Trump aide, Walt Nauta, has also been charged with moving boxes around his Florida mansion. (Related: Trump indictment unsealed)
MIAMI, FL – JUNE 13: Former President Donald Trump arrives at the Cuban restaurant Versailles after appearing for a federal arraignment in Miami, Florida on June 13, 2023. (Aron Sky/Getty Images)
“This is nothing less than a desperate, desperate and ongoing attempt by the Biden Crime Family and the Justice Department to harass President Trump and those around him,” the Trump campaign said in a statement.
“Deranged Jack Smith knows they have no lawsuit and will seek every possible way to bail out an illegal witch hunt and get someone other than Donald Trump to run as Crooked Joe Biden. We do,” the statement added.
